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Door With Handle (France)
This is a Door with handle. It was executor: Jean Dunand. It is dated 1925–26 and we acquired it in 1950. Its medium is carved, joined, and lacquered wood, eggshell, mother-of-pearl, gold leaf, cast bronze. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Having purchased a house on the North Shore of Long Island in 1924, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Guggenheim sought decorating help from their young British friend Rowland Burdon-Miller. At his recommendation, they commissioned doors and screens from Jean Dunand, the great French master of lacquer, and Séraphin Soudbinine, a Russian émigré and French sculptor—possibly the patrons’ first modern art commission.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. Solomon R. Guggenheim.
- Vase
- brass with coquille d’oeuf on red lacquer ground.
- Stephen E. Kelly/Kelly Gallery, New York.
- 38.2016.5
- Vase
- enamel, copper.
- Private Collection.
- 41.2016.5
- Sculpture, New York
- brass and steel on black marble base (or vulcanite base).
- Lent by Indianapolis Museum of Art, Discretionary Fund, 73.8.
- 68.2016.1
Our curators have highlighted 3 objects that are related to this one.
- Wall Maquette
- painted plywood.
- Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, John Stuart Gordon Gift,....
- 66.2016.10
- Sidewall, Opera
- screen printed on paper.
- Gift of Mrs. Howard Adams.
- 1981-33-1
- Dado (France)
- block-printed paper.
- Gift of Josephine Howell.
- 1972-42-183
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 271.2 × 65.9 × 7.6 cm (8 ft. 10 3/4 in. × 25 15/16 in. × 3 in.)
Cite this object as
Door With Handle (France); Executor: Jean Dunand (French, b. Switzerland, 1877–1942); carved, joined, and lacquered wood, eggshell, mother-of-pearl, gold leaf, cast bronze; H x W x D: 271.2 × 65.9 × 7.6 cm (8 ft. 10 3/4 in. × 25 15/16 in. × 3 in.); Gift of Mrs. Solomon R. Guggenheim; 1950-104-1
"Moten Swing," Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1932)
The Dunand doors are sophisticated, elegant, and massive. “Moten Swing” in many ways defines the emerging sounds coming out of Kansas City, but was recorded in Camden, New Jersey. The recording...
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
